Burbank Unified School District Board Meeting Preview

The following items are scheduled to be discussed at Thursday night’s board meeting:

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The board will recognize the following teachers who were selected as Burbank Teachers of the Year for the 2007-08 school year:

Patrick Carman, of John Burroughs High School; Lali Cola, of John Muir Middle School; Todd Doty, of Monterey High School; Oscar Macias, of Community Day School; Lisa Raluy, of Luther Burbank Middle School; Denise Osgood, of Burbank High School; Richard Patterson, of Magnolia Park School; Caryn Tomer, of the Off Campus Learning Center; and Christine DeMore, of Jordan Middle School.

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Board members will likely thank the teachers and recognize DeMore in her nomination for Los Angeles County Teacher of the Year.

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The board will be presented with an itemization of purchase orders totaling more than $561,500 to be approved for various supplies, equipment and maintenance at several schools and offices in the district.

A majority of the purchase order amount, more than $317,000, was made for a waterproofing project at Joaquin Miller Elementary School last summer.

More than $13,500 in the report is designated to the purchase of stage drapes at John Muir Middle School and a little more than $10,000 for books and texts for an advanced-placement computer science class at Burbank High School.

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The board will likely approve these purchase orders, as they consist of items critical to the district’s maintenance in school and administrative offices.

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The board will be presented with a report on instructional services for Luther Middle School and Thomas Edison Elementary School.

The services include $76,200 in math and English language arts classes for students in grades six through eight at Luther Middle School.

The classes will last from Nov. 1 to Feb. 29 and will be for students who are struggling to become proficient in math and English language arts.

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The district will like approve this instructional service as a way to combat slumping standardized test scores in these areas at Luther Middle School.